The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-11-03

BALTIMORE. Md, Oct. 27.-The mu-
nicipal election for mayor and mem
bers of both branches of the Baltimore
city council took place Wednesday.
The vote of the people was also taken |
on the question of ratifying the ordi- |
nance to issue million dollars of city
1 per cent. bonds to enlarge the water
system of Baltimore. The polls were
open from 8 a. IN. to p. m. The drink
.ng saloons were closed at IL o'clock
asst night for twenty four hours. The
candidates for mayor were as follows:
Ferdinand G. Latrobe, Democrat; Da-
vid L. Bartlett, Republican; William j.
Ogden, United Labor.
At II o'clock last night complete re-
turns from all the precincts in the city
showed the overwhelming defeat of
Bartlett by 4,839 votes. The Democrats
are wild with joy. The only serious en-
counter of the day was a murder in the
Seventeenth ward, just as the polls
closed, when a regular Democrat, after
being knocked down, was shot when
down and killed by one of Halsteads
r4formers. The council is largely Dem
ocratic.
1t will not do to dismiss the Demo
cratic victory in this city Wednesday
by indifferently remarking that the
Dutch have captured Holland. For
weeks there has been unprecedented
vituperation of good citizens, and the
Democrats of the city were stigmatized
as the perpetrators and cordoners of
every species of political fraud and
corruption. The Republican press of
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio has
teemed with reproductions of this
wholesale slander of city which stands
unique in the nation for it's Sabbath
observance and general regard for law
and order.
The attorney of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, j. X. Cowan, with the
alleged motive of making railroad
deal in State politics, headed a Demo
cratic independent movement, at the
tail of which the Republicans attached
themselves under such circumstances
with Jay Gouldism, to which Cowan's
surrender of the Baltimore & Ohio
franchises gave control.
The good citizens of this conserva-
tive city voted in force to repel the par
tisan ISLANDERS. Baltimore has notified
its libelers that it prefers home rule,
and that its Democratic control has
been satisfactory to it, The ticket vot-
ed yesterday had the regulation emblem
upon it of portrait or Andrew Jack
son, a tree and harp, with the legend
jackson and Liberty" The resent
ment felt here against Jay Gould is in
tense, and it is feared that he may
manipulate even the Associate Press
dispatches.
There are 20 wards in the city and 1870
precincts. The Democratic candidate
for Mayor was General f. C LatrObe,
and the Republican and Independent
candidates was David L. Bartlett. Be-
sides, there was full council of thirty
members to be elected-ten in the first
and twenty in the second branch.
AS soon as the polls closed at
six o'clock p. M, vast crowds con-
fronted the huge bulletins at the Sun
and American offices and each of the
1870 returns was cheered. Chairman
Archer, Of the State committee. received
the results at headquarters at Barnum's
Hotel. Two years ago Hodges defeated
Brown for Mayor by 1920 majority,
and with that vote present comparisons
should be made.
Interest in the returns increased as
they became completer, and Demo
cratic enthusiasm was without bounds.
Ogden, the labor candidate, was scarcely
heard of. The Republicans are cursing
the Independent Democrats for desert
ing their cause. The Democrats say
they never saw so many negroes vote
before. They far exceeded the registra-
ton, and voted the Republican ticket.
The only difference between this cleo
ton and the one in 1885 was that then
both Hodges and Brown were Demo
Gratis, while Bartlett is straightout Re.
publican, and hence he should have had
more votes than he got.
The vote polled aggregate 65,075, of
which Lathrobe, (Democrat) got S4,640
and Bartlett, (Republican) 3o,435, giving
Lathrobe majority of 4,2O5, Demo
cratic gain of nearly 1000 since the elec-
ton for mayor two years ago.
The newly elected city council will
consist of IL Democrats and 8 Repub-
licans in the first branch and z Demo
Gratis and Republicans in the second
branch. The result of the election was
great surprise to the Republicans,
who counted largely on the reformers'
aid, and were confident of victory. AL
ready cries of fraud are heard, and re-
newed efforts will be made to carry the
State at the gubernatorial election two
weeks hence.